It's not about Race.

Looks to me like Obama (and NATO) just broke the international law against assassinating foreign leaders

◼ Ibrahim said the airstrike was an attempt to “assassinate the leader of this country,” which he said violated international law. - Washington Post

Germany braces for May Day clashes

◼ Berlin - Police in Germany were bracing Saturday for what has become traditional May Day violence, fearing clashes with both leftist and right-wing extremists.

The international day of the worker has for the past two decades been accompanied in German cities by sporadic street violence and pitched battles between far-right skinheads, anti-fascist groups and police.

In the capital Berlin some 3 000 police will be deployed overnight on Saturday and twice as many the following night, a police spokesperson told AFP.

Herman Cain at the 2012 Presidential Forum in Manchester, New Hampshire

If a tornado’s call sounds like freight trains and bees, humankind’s response sounds like growling, determined power saws.

◼ Losing Everything, Except What Really Matters - NYT

Drudge: SF CHRONICLE: WHITE HOUSE LYING

◼ CARNEY: Paper 'violated the coverage rules'...

◼ Update: Chronicle responds after Obama Administration punishes reporter for using multimedia, then claims they didn't - Bronstein at Large, SF Gate (SF Chronicle)

Update: In a pants-on-fire moment, the White House press office today denied anyone there had issued threats to remove Carla Marinucci and possibly other Hearst reporters from the press pool covering the President in the Bay Area.

Chronicle editor Ward Bushee called the press office on its fib:

Sadly, we expected the White House to respond in this manner based on our experiences yesterday. It is not a truthful response. It follows a day of off-the-record exchanges with key people in the White House communications office who told us they would remove our reporter, then threatened retaliation to Chronicle and Hearst reporters if we reported on the ban, and then recanted to say our reporter might not be removed after all.

The Chronicle's report is accurate.

If the White House has indeed decided not to ban our reporter, we would like an on-the-record notice that she will remain the San Francisco print pool reporter.

I was on some of those calls and can confirm Ward's statement.

Messy ball now firmly in White House court.

read the background story at the link

All this because A REPORTER REPORTED.

How many reporters have been abiding by these secret 'rules' that say a reporter cannot report?

Bap!

h/t: skep

McDonald's Hiring 62,000

◼ Out of A MILLION APPLICANTS - nasdaq

"We were really pleased with not just the number of applicants, but also the quality of applicants," said Danitra Barnett, vice president of human resources for McDonald's USA. "It left us with a great pool of candidates we can continue to draw from going forward if we need to hire more."

She says the company received about 1 million applicants as part of the hiring push. Approximately 1,000 of the hires made were for management positions.

◼ Applications for unemployment benefits jumped 25,000 to a seasonally adjusted 429,000 for the week ending April 23, the Labor Department said Thursday. That's the highest total since late January. - finance.yahoo

Lara Logan Breaks Her Silence on Sexual Assault During Protests in Egypt…

◼ Lara Logan Breaks Her Silence on Sexual Assault During Protests in Egypt… - Weasel Zippers
...Ms. Logan said she decided almost immediately that she would speak out about sexual violence both on behalf of other journalists and on behalf of “millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse....”

Since Obama has been president, moreover, not just the time of courts and private lawyers has been tied up; government lawyers have had to spend their time — on the public’s dime — on this nonsense.

◼ Birth Certificate: Where Are the Indignant Questions to Obama? - Andrew C. McCarthy/National Review

One of the things Obama said yesterday was unintentionally striking. He contended that no one should ever have questioned his birth certificate because credible people who had seen it had described it in affidavits. Naturally, he didn’t mention why they were in the position of having to describe it in affidavits: namely, because Obama had refused to authorize production of the actual birth certificate, which he could have done at any moment over the last three years. Look how easy it would have been.

When I read in Dan’s post yesterday about how the White House was also releasing the relevant correspondence between Obama’s lawyers and the Hawaii health department regarding the certificate, I said to myself: “Okay, we are finally going to learn that there’s been some bureaucratic complication beneath all this intrigue.” But no: The request for certified copies of the birth certificate was (finally) made last week, on a Friday, in two short letters — including a four-sentence letter signed by the president that obviously took him considerably less time to review than it takes to stretch before teeing off at the first hole. The birth certificate was produced the following business day (Monday) — with the health department expressing hope that its production “will end the numerous inquiries” it had gotten over the years, which “have been disruptive to staff operations and have strained State resources.” And Obama was able to do his dog-and-pony show yesterday morning, only five days after asking the health department to produce the document.

...Obama knows the mainstream media is in his hip pocket. That is, he knew that he would not be held to the same standard as other politicians, and that if he acted in an unreasonable manner by withholding basic, easily available information that any other person seeking the presidency would be expected — be compelled — to produce, the media would portray as weirdos those demanding the information, not Obama and his stonewalling accomplices. And he also knows that, having now finally produced the document only because the game was starting to hurt him politically, the media will not focus on how easy it would have been to produce the birth certificate three years ago, or on how much time and money has been wasted by his gamesmanship; they’ll instead portray him as beleaguered and the people who have been seeking the basic information (i.e., doing the media’s job) as discredited whackos.

Confronting Bill Ayers

h/t: ◼ Hillbuzz

“Now that Obama has released his birth certificate, it’s clear why he waited: there was no immaculate conception!” That’s sure to disappoint some of his fans.

◼ The Damage Done by Obama’s Obstinance - Patterico

...So, bluntly, Mr. President, you should grant him (Lt. Col. Terry Lakin) a pardon, cleaning out his record as honorably discharged and giving him his pension, perhaps on the condition that he publicly admits you are eligible to be President. It’s the least you can do....

And Patrick is right to note that it is somewhat of an embarrassment how easy it was to get the certificate. That makes everyone who claims it was impossible to release it look like idiots. And there has been other fallout as well. For instance, Ed Morrissey writes:

You know who the biggest loser in this might be? CNN. They’re in the middle of their in-depth investigation of the birther movement, and now their unaired episodes are moot....

◼ Why Did Obama Wait So Long? - The Daily Beast

"It's also the job of the media always to press for more information, not less....

Get over yourselves, MSM. And do your job - not defending the right of people in power to protect themselves, but scrutinizing them relentlessly, with every fact and document you can get. You don't defuse conspiracy theories or end legitimate doubts by telling public officials they need not provide clear and available evidence to rebut them."

Check every car trunk before the vehicle gets within 400 feet of a recount location.

◼ Why Does The Wisconsin Recount Make Me Nervous? - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion

And make sure Al Franken is nowhere in sight.

It's starting to hit home. It's not the Gods playing with thunderbolts in the heavens anymore. The bolts are hitting the ground.

http://obamafoodorama.blogspot.com/2011/04/easter-storm-over-white-house.html

At least it looks that way.

◼ Arianna Huffington Develops Case of Obama Disillusionment Syndrome - HotAir

Call it “Attack of the Impassioned Yet Empty Rhetoric.” But this version was even more unsettling than the earlier versions, in which the president delivered great speeches then failed to back up his words with the promised action. In this sequel, his words turned to broken promises as soon as they passed his lips. h/t: BC

◼ Maybe Obama's Just Not That Good At Politics, Part II
◼ The increasingly odd political optics of Barack Obama - LA Times
◼ America Deserves Libya Explanation - Sarah Palin

The future of Government run healthcare...

◼ Another Blue State Success Story: Illinois State Workers' Pensions About to Go Bye-Bye - Doug Ross

For the second year in a row, Illinois ranks dead last when it comes to saving money to pay promised worker pensions -- and the hole is getting worse... According to a new report being issued this morning by the Pew Center on the States, Illinois through fiscal 2009 had set aside just 51% of the $126 billion it will need to pay retired workers their pensions.

...Above and beyond the $62 billion the state needs but doesn't have for pensions is another $44 billion it will need for promised retiree health care, Pew says. Illinois has set aside only .1% of that figure.

One percent.

And the kicker: ◼ Yes, we need “death panels” - Cynthia Tucker says "This morning, my colleague Jay Bookman had a very thoughtful post on why rationing health care — “death panels,” if you will — is quite necessary. I wrote on a similar subject in my Sunday column."

2nd Victim Details McDonald's Beating - Baltimore News Story - WBAL Baltimore

◼ 2nd Victim Details McDonald's Beating - Baltimore News Story - WBAL Baltimore

Fabulous!

Mass hysteria! Science world buzzing over rumours the elusive 'God particle' has finally been found

◼ The world's largest atom smasher is rumoured to have found the Higgs boson, the subatomic particle otherwise known as the 'God particle'

The speculation is based on a leaked internal note, said to be from physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a 17 mile-long particle accelerator near Geneva, Switzerland.
The rumours started when an anonymous post disclosed part of the note on Columbia University mathematician Peter Woit's blog...

"He is Risen"

A violent earthquake took place 

as an angel from Heaven rolled back the stone. 

The guards shook in fear as the angel,

dressed in bright white, sat upon the stone.

The angel announced to the women that Jesus 

who was crucified was no longer in the tomb.

"He is Risen"

(Thank you: Rider)

This is what it is coming to

When the Attorney General won't do anything about intimidation, when the Federal Government won't protect the people in Arizona, when law enforcement looks the other way - people step in.

In this video - the Black Panther goons were going to confront a man who killed two (Columbian) intruders in his neighbor's home. His neighbors made sure they (the Black Panthers) never got to his house. It's long, and it is noisy, but it is peaceful and sure and purposeful. Shocking, in its way, though. The power of people, in a neighborhood, to say, "No more."



There's a price to be paid when the government picks and chooses which laws they are going to enforce, and which groups they are going to "tolerate." We may be on the road to anarchy. None of us want it. But what was the choice here? Let the confrontation happen? Let the homeowner end up beaten? Maybe killed?

Maybe the neighbors should have stood around with cell phones and captured the action as he was beaten, like the employees at this McDonalds.



◼ Full video at Live Leak

There are two kinds of people. Which one are you?

Busted… Soros-Funded Think Progress' Caught Pushing Bogus Backlash Story

◼ So, once again Think Progress was caught fabricating the news. - Gateway Pundit
they claim Republicans are facing “more backlash” at town hall events. By “more backlash” they are talking about an event earlier in the week when Rep. Paul Baretta (R-PA) was harassed during a town hall meeting. What they don’t tell you is that the heckler was the Carbon County Democrats for Change leader.

At another town hall event in Milton, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan was booed by a small room of leftists who wanted to “tax the rich.” One of the upset constituents said he was a lifelong conservative who wants to tax the rich, expand government and redistribute wealth. Yeah, right.

Worth the price of admission: "skinny degenerate narcissistic megalomanical, rich opulent elitist, bigoted, two faced hypocritical lying corrupt catastrophic failure..."

◼ from the comments at $76,000 Cover Charge to Protest - White House pool reporter gives account of Mr. Obama's breakfast fundraiser in San Francisco
◼ Protesters hit high-end Obama fundraiser... - Drudge

WCF Withdraws Cape-A-Bility Campaign

◼ Tax dollars would have given superhero capes to jobless

The New Civility

Out of the basement for a photo-op, Jack Stuef - the whacked out poster boy for PDS.

◼ Warning: Extremely Offensive and vicious - Wonkette

◼ Boycotting Wonkette [UPDATE: Probation]
◼ Ouch: Wonkette Boycott Starts To Get Serious

- Ace
◼ The Wonkette weasels are feeling the heat for their disgusting post about Trig Palin. - Hillbuzz

So Hillbuzzers….consider this a Purple Team Action Item and let’s start listing other sponsors for Wonkette so we can tell them what we think of this horrid site. I also encourage you to thank those advertisers who have pulled their ads.
This isn’t the only classless post that Mr. Stuef has put out but it is the worst.

◼ Wonkette Gets Slammed, Loses at Least 10 Advertisers - Conservative Talk
◼ Principled liberals denounce Wonkette’s mockery of Trig Palin - Daily Caller
Here’s a quick rundown of some of the liberals I have observed who were willing to publicly condemn this despicable post…

Columnist and pundit Kirsten Powers called it “sick.” Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann called it “unacceptable” and “crass.” Radio host Alan Colmes called it “truly despicable.” And Slate’s Dave Weigel (whose political ideology defies easy classification) noted, “ll stick up for any satire that doesn’t *make fun of a mentally disabled toddler*.”

Mediaite’s Tommy Christopher probably led the charge on Twitter.

CAUGHT RED-HANDED: BLOGGER NAILS LEFTISTS FAKING ‘POPULIST’ PROTEST

◼ US Uncut advertised this as the true populist uprising rally, as a contrast to the phony astroturfed Tea Party. But if you invite the public to a rally beginning at 5pm and running to 6:30pm, and the organizers show up as a group early at the assigned place and then depart ten minutes before the public even has a chance to join in; and then go on a flash-mob march that features rehearsed choreographed dances; then it becomes completely obvious that this isn’t a mass movement, but rather just a small activist group doing political skits which they had practiced ahead of time, with no public involvement whatsoever.

Of course, since JPMorgan Chase is off the table, the plot having been exposed (caught on tape) a couple weeks ago, Bank of America is a convenient stand in. The game is in play, the scripts are assigned, the meme is "We're not broke (heads in sand), There's PLENTY of money! It's just that THEY (insert target du jour here) have it, and you don't, and you need to take it back! Hate the rich, Rah Rah Rah!"

Once you know the drill you can catch it - everywhere! Read up on the planned Union protests... that verbiage is inserted, it's all the evil corporations, if they'd just fork it over, the state wouldn't be going broke, No-o-o-o-o-o.

And, of course, we have our local group of Soros whores: ◼ The rallies are part of a campaign called “Make Them Pay.” Oh, and lookie-there, Michael Moore surfaces again. Makes you want to see the money trail, doesn't it?

◼ Tea Party vs. US Uncut: A San Francisco Tax Day Showdown - Compare and contrast.

It's Islamic Rage Boy! Only he's WHITE!

◼ Unhinged Lunatics Message to Madison Tea Party & Sarah Palin - rebelpundit, they caught it in the comments, too.
◼ “Who the f*** are you to lecture me, you little brat?!”

S&P MOVES USA OUTLOOK TO NEGATIVE

◼ S&P Affirms US AAA Rating, Cuts Outlook to Negative

"Because the U.S. has, relative to its 'AAA' peers, what we consider to be very large budget deficits and rising government indebtedness and the path to addressing these is not clear to us, we have revised our outlook on the long-term rating to negative from stable," the agency said in a statement.

The S&P said the move signals there's at least a one-in-three likelihood that it could lower its long-term rating on the United States within two years.

Murderers of the Fogel family captured

Most of the Fogel family was slaughtered a little over a month ago by Muslims waging
jihad fi sabil Allah — “war for the sake of Allah.” Each person in the photo above was
killed their home as the family prepared to go to bed: Udi (36), his wife Ruth (35), their children
Yoav (11, bottom center), Elad (4, bottom left), and and Hadas (3 months). Ruth and Udi were surprised,
fought back, but were killed in their bedroom. Hadas –the infant!– had his throat slit so deep he was almost decapitated. Three children survived: one, a toddler, was found next to his parents’ corpses, trying to make them “wake up.”

◼ The suspects have confessed to the stabbings and re-enacted the murders, security forces said on Sunday. According to Army Radio, they did not express remorse for their crimes.

The article also points out that these two went back to kill the baby, after they heard it start crying.

Nothing is beneath them

◼ Vandals Break In WI Office – Steal Fleebagger Recall Petitions . . . - GCP
◼ Vandals Break In WI Office – Steal Fleebagger Recall Petitions Hours After It Was Announced Enough Signatures Were Collected (Video) - gatewaypundit

On Thursday Wisconsin conservatives announced that they had collected enough signatures 15,000 to recall fleebagger Senator Dave Hansen of Green Bay.... Vandals broke into a Wisconsin political office late Thursday or Friday morning and ripped off the fleebagger recall petitions....

Video: Atlas is shrugging already

◼ Atlas is shrugging already
◼ Film review: Atlas Shrugged

Is it playing in a theater near you? It's not here.

◼ Who is John Galt? gear

◼ 300 theaters and counting.
Not near you yet? DEMAND Atlas to your town. Theaters being added regularly.

Baby Raccoon

Meet some of the bloggers

Top row: Ann Althouse, Glenn Reynolds and Eugene Volokh. Bottom row: Gary S. Becker, N. Gregory Mankiw and Juan Cole.

◼ Big Blog on Campus - NYT (photo source)
◼ The NYT has an article about 7 professor blogs, including mine. - Althouse

"C'mon guys, I'm the president of the United States.Where's the fancy buttons and stuff and the big screen comes up? It doesn't happen."

◼ "The Oval Office, I always thought I was going to have really cool phones and stuff," he said during a small fundraising event at a Chicago restaurant. "I'm like, c'mon guys, I'm the president of the United States. Where's the fancy buttons and stuff and the big screen comes up? It doesn't happen."

The president made his off-the-cuff remarks with donors as he took questions and after reporters had been ushered out of the event. But the question and answer session was piped back to Washington by mistake and into the press briefing area where a few reporters were still working late.

'Universal' cancer jab: Vaccine that stops all tumours in their tracks could be here in two years

◼ 'Universal' cancer jab: Vaccine that stops all tumours in their tracks could be here in two years - Daily Mail

Irshad's new book

◼ Allah, Liberty and Love: The Courage to Reconcile Faith and Freedom.

Solar power without silicon solar cells? New magnetic effect of light into insulators discovered.

◼ ‘We’ve all been taught that this doesn’t happen’ - Watts Up With That

"More than likely, we will be upgrading the charge to murder,"

◼ Maybe this time she will be put away for life
The man Crystal Mangum is accused of stabbing has died, Durham Police Department Chief Jose Lopez Sr. said Wednesday.

Mangum already was in jail under a $300,000 secured bond charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury.

"More than likely, we will be upgrading the charge to murder," Lopez said.

Obama wants Thune to see a black neighborhood on Chicago's South Side and a downstate manufacturing town where jobs are leaving and "55-year-olds are having to compete with kids for $7-an-hour jobs at Wal-Mart."

◼ Rising stars: 2005

So the question is - did Obama's policies IMPROVE conditions in that black neighborhood? Six years later, he's now the President of the United States - what has he done except rise up the ladder?

Yellowstone’s supervolcano – worse than we thought

◼ Yellowstone’s supervolcano – worse than we thought
◼ ELECTRIC YELLOWSTONE = CONDUCTIVITY IMAGE HINTS VOLCANO PLUME IS BIGGER THAN THOUGHT

If we have to spend $45 trillion and freeze in the dark to save the expanding polar bear population, why is it still legal to shoot them and sell their hides for cash?

◼ Hunters in Nunavik, a predominantly Inuit region in northern Quebec, have killed an unusually high number of polar bears this year, and demand has been cited as a reason.

For KT: Something to make you smile

"And deranged narcissism isn’t really funny."

Amen to that.
◼ Charlie Sheen: ‘An Aimless and Slovenly Disaster’ - The Other McCain

The marketed illusion of life as the ultimate bachelor was obtained the same way gratification from a street walker is: cash.

◼ Pay to Play - American Spectator
...Nobody told Izabella St. James that sexual liberation came with curfews, monitors, and allowances. A former live-in girlfriend of Hugh Hefner, St. James has come clean on the dirty life inside the Playboy mansion. The Hefner girlfriends log-out upon departing the mansion and log-in upon returning. Security personnel monitor their movements, with a strict 9 p.m. curfew imposed. Weekly allowances of $1,000, and gratis plastic surgery, keep the ladies in line. The busty blonde reflected in the Daily Mail earlier this year, "Little did I realize that by moving into the mansion I was losing all the freedom I associated with the Playboy lifestyle...

The picture painted of the Playboy mansion by St. James and other playmates is one of joyless, obligatory orgies, dog-mess littered carpets, hall-monitor snitches, and a control-freak master of the house...."

Reality bites again.

Who Killed The Kennedys?

◼ Some unknown person or persons in the upper reaches of these huge media companies apparently succumbed to pressure and suppressed The Kennedys. This pressure most likely came from the Kennedy family (Caroline?) and friends. The family has been quite successful over the years in their attempts to keep their detractors quiet.

I have no way of knowing, but they may have succeeded inside the making of The Kennedys as well as outside. Curiously, “The Lion of the Senate” and youngest son of Joe and Rose Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, is never seen or even mentioned in any of the eight episodes of the miniseries. What is the reason for this extraordinary omission? - Roger L. Simon at PajamasMedia

Chant - Music for paradise - Music for the soul - Stift Heiligenkreuz

◼ Thank You to the Anchoress. We needed this.

"How would you react if you saw severed heads in your neighborhood?"

◼ How would you react if you saw severed heads in your neighborhood? - Sister Toldjah

Bless Sarkozy

◼ French full veil ban goes into force

US Debt Jumped $54 Billion in Week Preceding Deal to Cut $38 Billion...

◼ The debt was $14.2101 trillion on March 30, according to the Bureau of the Public Debt, and $14.2642 on April 7. Since the beginning of the fiscal year on Oct. 1, 2010, the national debt has increased by $653.4 billion.

The Culture War Is Alive and Well: How '24' Got Mugged by Liberals

◼ at PJTV
Joel Surnow returns to Poliwood to talk about his legendary television show 24. Would you believe that 24 was conceived of in an IHOP? Find out how 24 went from being a brilliant tv show, to the bane of liberals. Did Surnow get bullied on account of his conservative politics? Find out.

Walking away from it

Or in other words - not present.
◼ Getaway Weekend - headline on Drudge

Rangel: "We didn't get to it."

O'Reilly asks Charlie Rangel why they didn't pass the budget when they had both legislative houses.

"He kloppered her"

◼ Althouse: At the Kloppenburg Kafé... Lem said...
From now on this will be known as the Klopper Caper..
Triangle Man said...
He kloppered her.
◼ Althouse: "David Prosser gained 7,582 votes in Waukesha County... after a major counting error of Brookfield results was detected, County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus announced in a stunning development this afternoon."
◼ Althouse: Apparently, Justice Prosser won the election! According to the latest count. The AP tally that everyone was looking at had the Winnebago County number wrong
Love the commenters at Althouse!
◼ Bombshell in Wisconsin: Supreme Court race swings to conservative Prosser Michelle Malkin

Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus said Thursday that she failed to save in her computer and then report 14,315 votes in the city of Brookfield, omitting them entirely in an unofficial tally released after Tuesday’s election. The new totals give 10,859 more votes to Prosser from Brookfield and 3,456 more to Kloppenburg, she said. Smaller discrepancies turned up in two other communities as well.

◼ Waukeshaw Computer Error Results In Entire City of Brookfield's Votes Never Being Tallied... Until Today
Presser At 6:300 ET; Should Be On Most News Channels - Ace
◼ Declaring Victory
Video of Press Conference Now Available - Ace
◼ Justice David Prosser on Today’s Election Results: “I Survived a Nuclear Firestorm… The Lead Is Too Big to Overcome” (Video) - Gateway Pundit
◼ The Dead Have Arisen, and They’re Voting Republican! - Ed Driscoll

Comrie's wife, 54, a vegetarian who "does yoga and watches every morsel" she eats, said the councilman eats healthy at home but cheats when he's out.

◼ Pol seeking Happy Meal toy ban hides pigouts from wife

More in the - since I can't control myself I think I will just ban you all from doing anything - line of governance. Kinda like the Tahl-ee-bahn, isn't it?

Israel's Iron Dome intercepts first rocket

◼ Eyewitnesses told Ynet they saw the rocket explode in midair and realized that the system had intercepted its first rocket.

Pray for Israel. The attacks will never end.

Thought for the day

GE is Obama's Halliburton. Only this time the corruption is real.

Breaking: Tsunami warnings for Japan after 7.4 aftershock

◼ Breaking: Tsunami warnings for Japan after 7.4 aftershock
◼ Another strong quake strikes off tsunami-hit Japan

The masks are all off now

They're not even hiding it anymore:

◼ Pelosi To Headline Soros 'Change The World' Event...

Who're You Calling the 'Party of the Rich'?

◼ Not only does the theory that the rich elect Republicans ring false, just the opposite prevails.

If Republicans are "the party of the rich," how come "the rich" elect Democrats? While the first half of the question is conventional wisdom, the second half is congressional fact. At the risk of letting facts get in the way of a good story, here they insist on showing exactly the opposite of what most people think.

According to calculations of states' average incomes, those states with the highest average overwhelmingly elect Democrats to Congress. This iconoclastic insight was underscored by a recent USA Today ranking of the states by their population's average income....

Speaker Boehner gets three minutes of President Obama’s time…

…for the trivial issue of trying to avoid a government shutdown this Friday. Unfortunately, it was only three minutes; nothing was accomplished in that time period, which means that we’re still on track for said government shutdown by the Democrats. And there probably won’t be any more meaningful negotiations today, mostly because President Obama has dinner plans tonight. Dinner plans involving Al Sharpton - because while keeping our soldiers paid and everything is all very well, what’s really important is the 2012 election.

◼ Speaker Boehner gets three minutes of President Obama’s time… - RedState

"Default by the United States is unthinkable."

◼ Geithner wants more money

Meanwhile:
◼ March Madness: U.S. Gov't Spent More Than Eight Times Its Monthly Revenue

It has to end.

Let's say you make $40,000 a year. How long are you going to last if you are spending $320,000 a year, your credit cards are maxed out, everything you 'own' is mortgaged - it's the end of the road. Short of winning the lottery... what are you going to do?

A strange statement

◼ the current US president uses force and at the same time deception and conspiracy unlike Bush who clearly resorted to weapon and military action to save the capitalistic system

Stating his interpretation of the Obama policy, Ahmadinejad said that the difference between Bush and Obama lies in the fact that the current US president uses force and at the same time deception and conspiracy unlike Bush who clearly resorted to weapon and military action to save the capitalistic system.

As regards the future of the US administration, the Iranian president stated, "I believe that he (Bush) left the scene of politics with shame, but his successor (Obama) will have to leave the scene of politics with much more shame because of his resort to both force and deception."

What does that mean exactly? Is it a peculiar way of describing a Chicago politician?

Iraq vs. Libya: A Graphic Interpretation

◼ Iraq vs. Libya: A Graphic Interpretation
See it at Red State

Tsunami dog found alive after THREE WEEKS adrift at sea on a floating house

◼ Safe and hound: Tsunami dog found alive and well in Japan after THREE WEEKS adrift at sea on a floating house

Baby American bald eagles are expected to hatch in Decorah, Iowa, between March 30 and April 1. Watch it live on webcam:

Free video streaming by Ustream
Night vision as well as daytime camera